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Writer's pictureCharles Joseph Albert

ELEMENTS OF A TRAGEDY


(Thulium mendelevium indium palladium: Lawrencium, Molybdenum.)

(Two men in the Palladium: Larry, Mo.)

LAWRENCIUM: Francium? Germanium?

Larry: French? German?

MOLYBDENUM: Americium. Holmium indium Berkelium, Californium.

Mo: American. Home in Berkeley, California.

LAWRENCIUM: Selenium cerium?

Larry: Sell any serum?

MOLYBDENUM: Samarium. Erbium sodium.

Mo: Some. Herb soda.

LAWRENCIUM: Nobelium? Ytterbium erbium sodium?

Larry: No bull? It be herb soda?

MOLYBDENUM: Hafnium erbium, Hafnium gallium.

Mo: half herbs, half gall.

LAWRENCIUM: Gallium? Promethium curium?

Larry: Gall? Promise them cures?

MOLYBDENUM: Tellurium yttrium beryillium strontium actinium. Tellurium thullium rubidium fermium indium uranium.

Mo: Tell 'em it be really strong acting. Tell 'em to rub it firmly in your anus.

LAWRENCIUM: Europium indium!

Larry: You rope them in!

MOLYBDENUM: Nobelium, Einsteinium.

Mo: No bull, Einstein.

LAWRENCIUM: Titanium cadmium! Aluminum mendelevium indium palladium!

Larry: Titanic cad! All men in the Palladium!

(Aluminum radium palladium. Lawrencium tellurium scandium.)

(All raid the palladium. Larry tells them the scandal.)

ALUMINUM: Yttrium scandium! Lithium Cesium! Lithium polonium indium rhodium!

All: It's a scandal! Let's seize him! Let's pull him in the road!

(Molybdenum, platinum indium rhodium, thorium.)

(Mo, flat in the road, sore.)

MOLYBDENUM: Chromium magnesium! Vanadium!

Mo: Cro-magnons! Vandals!

(Indium paladium)

(In the Palladium)

LAWRENCIUM: Iridium.

Larry: You're rid of him.

ALUMINUM: Praeseodynium Gadolinium!

All: praise God.

LAWRENCIUM: Gadolinium protactinium osmium!

Larry: God protect us!


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